BROWSING: DevOps

Cisco gets deeper into Manchester smart-city scene with new IoT ‘maker-space’

Cisco has launched an IoT ‘maker-space’ in conjuction with Manchester Metropolitan University, continuing its close involvement in the UK city’s tech scene. Over the past two years, Cisco has led a number of collaborative initiatives to help solve challenges and drive opportunities in the Greater...

NIB: Semtech offers free LoRaWAN training; Digital Colony buys small-cell firm iWireless; Soracom announces IoT funding

Semtech opens-up and makes-free its LoRaWAN Academy Semtech, the Californian chip-maker that owns and licenses the LoRa technology, is offering free educational modules via its LoRaWAN Academy for students, engineers, developers, and enterprises developing LoRa-based IoT solutions. The LoRaWAN Academy launched in late 2017 and initially...

AT&T on reducing cellular IoT costs and complexities for developers: “Time to revenue is shorter”

Another from the MWC 2019 vaults, which has so far slipped through the gaps of a hectic quarter at Enterprise IoT Insights. This time, we catch up with Cameron Coursey, vice president of IoT product development at AT&T, to discuss how the US carrier...

Microsoft snaps up IoT firm Express Logic to “unlock billions of new endpoints”

Microsoft has acquired embedded computing software firm Express Logic for an undisclosed fee, with an aim to “unlock access to billions of new connected endpoints” in the internet-of-things (IoT) space. The San Diego outfit is behind the ThreadX real-time operating system (RTOS), for managing highly...

New “deep-tech” VC fund goes all-in for digital change, security and… cowgorithms

New seed-stage private equity firm Ubiquity Ventures has made its first six investments in start-ups. Each of the companies selected for funding are in the industrial transformation or tech security games. Ubiquity Ventures, based in Palo Alto, is focused on “pushing software beyond the screen”,...

Google intros new AI edge hardware for predictive maintenance, machine vision, robotics

Google has released new hardware for machine learning at the edge in the form of a single-board computer running its edge-based Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) processor. Alongside the new system-on-module (SOM), available under its Coral brand, Google has unveiled a USB-connected accessory that brings...

Avnet buys AI specialist Softweb Solutions to bolster its IoT software proposition

Phoenix based electronics distributor and internet-of-things (IoT) developer platform Avnet has struck a deal to acquire Chicago IoT solutions vendor Softweb Solutions for an undisclosed fee. Softweb Solutions specialises in artificial intelligence (AI) software for IoT applications and systems. Avnet, a major partner of AT&T...

EdgeX Foundry ramps up security of open source IoT code for edge devices

EdgeX Foundry has released a new version of its Delhideveloper code for IoT edge devices, with new security and management features, new software developer kits (SDKs), and an updated user interface. The third major code release from EdgeX Foundry, the open source Linux Foundation project,...

Why any developer can leverage artificial intelligence (Reader Forum)

Artificial intelligence is a technology that presupposes the advents before it and builds upon them to create an invention of endless applications and limitless possibilities. AI is, in no uncertain terms, a revolutionary technology with implications well beyond its surface. Research continues to further our...

Platform provider Particle intros new IoT developer kits, Microsoft IoT coding studio

Platform provider Particle has released a round of new internet-of-things (IoT) developer tools and an IoT app design programme based on Microsoft’s coding studio. Particle’s IoT platform underpins offerings from the likes of energy provider Engie, design studio Ideo, crops provider Grow Labs, and coffee...

Mega GitHub deal is good for IoT, provided Microsoft avoids “mass developer exit”

Microsoft’s mega $7.5 billion all-stock purchase of developer platform GitHub is good for the tech sector at large and for the ‘internet of things’ (IoT) market in particular, provided the US computing giant demonstrates a lightness touch in its integration work and avoids a...

The role of Open Source and DevOps in IoT

Panel: The role of open source, standards and DevOps in connected Industries Moderator Sean Kinney, Managing Editor at RCR Wireless News, is joined by Kate Stewart, Director of Strategic Accounts at The Linux Foundation and David Brenner, Wireless Marketing and Business Development at Intel Corporation to discuss...

AT&T creates dedicated IoT starter kit for Amazon Web Services

AT&T last year released its IoT Starter Kit to help developers create "internet of things" (IoT) projects. At it's recent developers summit, the carrier said it will make it easier to connect USB-based device with a lighter version of the original starter kit. The company also...

Telecom workforce adjustments needed for move to devops model

Telecom workforce adjustments needed for devops Just as workforce adjustments will be needed for telecom’s move to software-defined networks, changes will also need to take place in order for devops to be fully realized. In our article How telecom operators should approach devops we talked...

How telecom operators should approach devops

Telecom, the biggest adopter of devops The devops model is being heavily adopted by telecom companies during the industry's ongoing transition to virtualized networks. In a 2014 report by CA Technologies, telecommunications led all other industries in devops adoption, with 88% having already transitioned, or looking...

3 challenges facing telecom operators in shift to devops

Defining devops The most universal understanding of devops is a business model for managing a company’s software teams by bringing together developers and operations managers. But that basic definition is only the simplification of a concept with many intricacies and misunderstandings. For one, defining the broad...

Ericsson, GE Ventures continue IoT startup investment

IoT startup Resin.io focuses on devops for the industrial internet of things Seattle-based Resin.io, an IoT startup focused on devops management, raised $9 million in Series A funding round with capital coming from telecom equipment heavyweight Ericsson and GE's investment arm GE Ventures. Specifically, Resin.io has...

Linux Foundation AllJoyn delivering IoT Interoperability

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nVRnPFowYM Philip DesAutels, Senior Director of IoT at The Linux Foundation provides Jeff Mucci, RCR Wireless News, with an update of recent AllSeen and AllJoyn Software announcements. Specific questions answered include: Please provide an overview of AllSeen Alliance and AllJoyn® technology? What problems does AllSeen Alliance solve? Would you...

IoT data connectivity, system integrators, dev kits

https://youtu.be/MvTYlAw0uQ4 Today's IoT Innovation episode brought to you by Anritsu and Telecomcareers IoT pundits and experts, Chris Hare and Steve Brumer, join host Jeff Mucci for a rousing discussion on IoT trends and news. Specific topics include: "Internet of data versus 'Internet of Things,'" a term first...

IoT security, licensed vs. unlicensed, development kits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dmHck4HoBA This week on on IoT Innovation, UltraSOC CEO, Rupert Baines, joins host Jeff Mucci, for a thoughtful discussion on the following top IoT trends: • IoT Wireless Network Wars - Licensed versus unlicensed IoT network connectivity. Specifically, how long range, low power (ie Sigfox, LoRa, Silver...